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half-baked

[ haf-beykt, hahf- ]

adjective

  1. insufficiently cooked.
  2. not completed; insufficiently planned or prepared:

    a half-baked proposal for tax reform.

  3. lacking mature judgment or experience; unrealistic.


half-baked

adjective

  1. insufficiently baked
  2. informal.
    foolish; stupid
  3. informal.
    poorly planned or conceived
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of half-baked1

First recorded in 1615–25
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Eating the rich has never been quite so putrid a task as watching “Death of a Unicorn,” a truly toothless satire that I’d struggle to even deem “half-baked.”

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All of their songs, whether fully realized or half-baked, were dutifully logged by McCartney into an exercise book he had swiped from school.

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It can project strength without some hypocritical and destructive occupation or invasion, or a half-baked “nation-building” disaster.

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Trump’s unfit nominee for Defense secretary gets the benefit of an incomplete, half-baked and secret FBI report.

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And Rundell maintains that there are things we can still do to save these magical, breathtaking creatures: Vote, invest carefully, protest, educate, consume less, refuse to give in to “half-baked nihilism.”

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